Cigar-cutter.



I. H. ASTRUOK.

CIGAR CUTTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 5,1913.

1,083,516. Patented Jan. 6, 1914.

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JOHN H. ASTRUCK, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

CIGAR-CUTTER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 6, 1914.

Application filed May 5, 1913. Serial No. 765,430.

To all whom it may concern 7 Be it known that 1, JOHN H. AsrRUoK, acitizen of the United States, residing at New York city, county andState of New York, have invented a new and useful Cigar- Cutter, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a cigar cutter of novel construction, whichmay be readily assembled, is compact, of neat appearance, and insures aclean cut.

In the accompanying drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a cigarcutter embodying my invention; Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, online 22, Fig. 3; Fig. 8 a cross section on line 33, Fig. 2; Fig. 4 aplan of the blank, and Fig. 5 a cross section of a modification.

The device comprises essentially a casing A, made preferably of sheetmetal and shown to be mounted upon a tray or similar support B. Casing Ais formed of a continuous strip of bent metal, being composed of a front10, top 11, back 12, and a pair of sides 13, 14, while depending prongs15 on the front and back serve to attach the casing to the tray. One ofthe sides, say side 13, is provided with an integral inwardly extendinglug 16, which is arranged parallel to front 10 and at some distance backthereof. This lug is formed out of the body of side 13, which for thispurpose is provided with a projection 16 and with nicks 17 made above aswell as below said projection. During the formation of the casing out ofthe blank illustrated in Fig. l, the projection 16 is bent up at rightangles, then the sides as well as the top are turned up, and finally thefront is turned down over the sides as will be readily understood. Lug16 is apertured for'the reception of a rearwardly deflected tail piece18 of a cutting blade 19 that passes out of the casing through a slot20* of side 14, and is provided at its exposed end with an integralfinger piece 21. Between front plate 10 and lug 16, blade 19 is providedwith a stepped section 22, whereby the body of the blade is advancedagainst the inner side of plate 10, so as to insure a clean shearingaction. Blade 19 is normally swung up by a spring 23, one shank of whichis secured to a lug 24 stamped out of back 12, while the other shank issecured to an eye 25 stamped out of blade 19. Front 10 is within thesweep of the blade, provided with an aperture 26 through which the tipof the cigar to be severed is introduced. Spring 23 besides serving toraise the blade, also serves to hold it spring-pressed against thefront- 10, during which action the stepped section 22 will prevent anyobjectionable looseness of the blade at its fulcrum.

In Fig. 5 the invention is shown to be applied to a casing which isadapted to be at tached to a back plate or support C, in lieu of beingattached to a tray. With this construction the casing is open at theback, and is attached to the back plate by means of lugs 27 formed onthe sides of the casing.

I claim:

A cigar cutter comprising a casing having an apertured front and aninwardly extending apertured lug arranged in parallelism with saidfront, a cutting blade pivotally engaging said lug and provided with astepped section intermediate lug and front, and a spring secured to thecasing and to said blade, said spring being adapted to normally raisethe blade and to hold it in frictional contact with the front.

JOHN H. ASTRUCK.

lVitnesses:

FRANK v. BRIESEN, KATHERYNE KooH.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

